Desperate Housewives (TV Series)

Pretty Little Picture (2004)

Brenda Strong: Mary Alice Young

Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  Mary Alice Young : [voice over narration]  After I died, I began to surrender the parts of myself that were no longer necessary. My desires, beliefs, ambitions, doubts. Every trace of my humanity was discarded. I discovered, when moving through eternity, it helps to travel lightly. In fact, I held onto only one thing. My memory. It's astonishing to look back on the world I left behind. I remember it all. Every single detail. Like my friend, Bree Van De Kamp. I remember the easy confidence of her smile, the gentle elegance of her hands, the refined warmth of her voice...

  Bree : Bye.

  Mary Alice Young : [voice over narration]  ...But what I remember most about Bree...,

  Bree : Rex, wasn't that a lovely...?

  Mary Alice Young : [voice over narration]  ...was the look of fear in her eyes. Bree had started to realize her world was unraveling. And for a woman who despised loose ends, that was unacceptable...

• Bree : Oh, Rex, you look so tired.

  Rex : I didn't sleep. This damn thing is so uncomfortable.

  Bree : Well, why don't you move back upstairs, and sleep in my bed.

  Rex : We're in marriage counseling, Bree. I think that would confuse things.

  Bree : It's just... I miss you.

  Rex : I know you do. Of course, if I don't start getting some sleep pretty soon, I'll be forced to move back upstairs out of sheer exhaustion.

  Mary Alice Young : [narrating voice over]  Yes, Bree was afraid of many things. But if there was one thing she wasn't afraid of..., it was a challenge.

• Mary Alice Young : [narrating voice over]  As the sun slowly settled on Wisteria Lane, an unsettled Susan racked her brain to find a way into her own house.

  [Susan holds the plant in front of her naked body and sidesteps her way down the steps and toward the garden shed on the left side of the house which is also locked. She tiptoes to the window and tries to open it, but it's stuck. She puts the plant down and uses two hands to open it, but slips and falls on her back into her shrubs] 

  Mary Alice Young : [narrating voice over]  Lying naked in her shrubs, it occurred to Susan that this could be the most humiliating moment of her life.

  [Mike walks by and notices her naked in the shrubs] 

  Mike Delfino : Susan?

  Mary Alice Young : [narrating voice over]  She was wrong.

  Mike Delfino : [averting his eyes and grinning]  Uh...whatcha' doing?

  Susan Mayer : Locked myself out...naked.

  Mike Delfino : Oh.

  Susan Mayer : And then I fell.

  [crosses her legs] 

  Susan Mayer : So how are you?

  Mike Delfino : Good, good. I just got back. I've been gone all day, and I got your message about dinner, and, um, I would love to come if the invite still stands.

  Susan Mayer : It's a date.

  Mike Delfino : Alright, I um, assume the dress is, uh, casual.

  Susan Mayer : Yeah, it's...it's casual.

  [Mike nods, grinning as he walks off. Susan squeals and covers herself with the plants] 

• [last lines] 

  Mary Alice Young : [narrating voice over]  Yes, I remember the world, every detail. And what I remember most is how afraid I was

  [shot of Bree holding Mary Alice's audio tape] 

  Mary Alice Young : . What a waste.

  [Bree looks out the window] 

  Mary Alice Young : You see, to live in fear is not to live at all. I wish I could tell this to those I left behind.

  [shot of Gabrielle and John sleeping in bed together] 

  Mary Alice Young : But would it do any good? Probably not

  [Gabrielle looks out the window] 

  Mary Alice Young : . I understand now. There will always be those who face their fears

  [shot of Susan looking through pictures, she looks out the window] 

  Mary Alice Young : . And there will always be those... who run away

  [shot of Paul hammering a "For Sale" sign into the yard of his house] 

  Mary Alice Young : .